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Why Is This Item Selling For So Much?

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I dont get it
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 Posted 04/27/2015  4:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add matttheriley to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Shill Bid?
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 Posted 04/27/2015  4:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add atticguy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't know either. I bought mine almost two years ago for 50-cents; I don't think it's done up in value that much since.
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 Posted 04/27/2015  4:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fourmack to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
1936 Dot ?
Cheers Don

Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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 Posted 04/27/2015  4:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wildflowerAB to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
A possible dot is what I was thinking as well.

To add: Not saying it is (or isn't) but I've noticed sometimes sellers photograph some of their items in such a way that it leads a potential buyer to believe it's a variety that's gone unnoticed, thus "chance" gets built into a purchase at a higher price....when in fact it's only an illusion!
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 Posted 04/27/2015  4:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add aswag to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Maybe they thing it is a 1936 Dot. That said, the "dot" on this ebay coin is not in the same place as place as that shown on Coins and Canada...

http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins...nt-1920-1936

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 Posted 04/27/2015  4:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Petersun to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It ooks cleaned to me.
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- I was drunk and hit bid 15 times ....

- Sometime up north it gets a little "shilly" ...


*shrugs*

my best two guesses... may auction fever?

Who knows but if the auction is legit... congrats to the seller... wow
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 Posted 04/27/2015  5:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SolarPenny to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My guess is that the first bidder accidentally put too much for their max bid (ex. $21 instead of $2.10) or something like that. Then the second bidder is a shill bidder, only item they've bid on in the last 30 days seems a bit suspicious.
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Seems a bad case of the mumps! Look very closely - I can see at least 15 dots below the word "cents", including the one below 1936 that's too high up, compared to the photographed 1936 dot variety.

Perhaps it's a one-of-a-kind prewar version of a sort of morse code/Victory nickel and that's the attraction? That must be it.
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 Posted 04/27/2015  10:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lambecolin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Dot is too small---wrong place----too bad.
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 Posted 04/27/2015  10:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add larsdog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Look at the bidding history. It's two rookies that don't know what they are doing, or one rookie and a VERY good shill bidder. I've seen this before. Each bidder is clueless and ASSUMES the other bidder knows what he (or she) is doing. When they are both clueless a train wreck is inevitable!
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Is it me, or does that reverse 1936 dot image on the Coins & Canada website (see aswag's link, above) look like a 'made-in-China' example? Looks nothing like a specimen strike, nor any of the real 1936 dot cents I have seen over the years...
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SPP, you're right.

I'm not too familiar with the fake versions, but I can tell it does not look genuine at all. Way too many things off. Could they not have use the same picture we've seen in catalogues or on Google?
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The coinsandcanada example is indeed a fake.
Here's the discussion from which they lifted the reverse image.
http://numicanada.com/forum/viewtop...p?f=1&t=1833
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yep, shows "replica" right on the coin.....
I guess they don't have the real thing, so showed what the real one is suppose to look like with this "replica" example...



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